G eneralist physicians often pursue fellowship training to develop skills and expertise that will help them toward establishing academic careers. In part 1 of this two-part series, we discussed issues relevant to effective learning and development during the early part of fellowship. 1 Here we offer advice, from our experience as former general medicine fellows and a fellowship program director...

This paper presents a range of optimization based approaches to fault diagnosis. A variety of fault diagnosis problems are reformulated in the so-called standard problem setup introduced in the literature on robust control. Once the standard problem formulations are given, the fault diagnosis problems can be solved by standard optimization techniques. The proposed methods include: (1) fault dia...

This study assessed the effects of an aerobic training program on reaction time tasks that manipulated preparatory intervals (PI) to produce temporal preparation effects using short (1, 3, 5 s) and long (5, 7, 9 s) PI. Older adults were assigned to either a 3-month aerobic training group or to a control group. Individuals in the training group participated in an aerobic training program of thre...

Background No randomised controlled trial has been successfully conducted during an influenza pandemic. The ASAP trial (Adjuvant Steroids in Adults with Pandemic Influenza) aims to use the novel strategy of set-up in advance of an influenza pandemic, and ‘hibernation’ in readiness for activation in a pandemic. Upon activation, the trial needs to recruit the first participant within 4 weeks, and...

Most computer vision algorithms have parameters. This is a fact of life which is familiar to any researcher in the field. Unfortunately, for algorithms to work properly, the parameters have to be tuned. We propose a semi-automatic approach to parameter tuning, which is general-purpose and can be used for a wide variety of computer vision algorithms. The basic setup is as follows. The vision alg...

This chapter describes how an institution of higher education, Bowling Green State University (BGSU), partnered with the Ohio Center for Autism and Low Incidence (OCALI), a quasi-governmental agency, to meet the training needs of the local, state, national, and international community by providing an online autism spectrum disorders (ASD) certificate program. This curriculum incorporates and bu...

The article reports empirical evaluation of RESTORE, a restorative justice (RJ) conferencing program adapted to prosecutor-referred adult misdemeanor and felony sexual assaults. RESTORE conferences included voluntary enrollment, preparation, and a face-to-face meeting where primary and secondary victims voice impacts, and responsible persons acknowledge their acts and together develop a re-dres...